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A review by cavalary
Times Without Number by John Brunner
3.0
Decent as structure and overall action, ok ending, but not much more.
It is actually made up of three short stories, about 50 pages each, which do end up forming a longer story when put together, but it's still not the same thing.
Also, from a visionary like Brunner, I'd have expected a bit more... vision. So the Spanish Armada defeated the English in 1588 and now Spain rules Western Europe, except the north, and the Americas. But, besides the invention of time travel, the Spanish society of 1988 looks very much unchanged from that of 1588. Misses the technological developments that really happened until then but, with the exception of time travel, adds nothing new to replace them.
It is actually made up of three short stories, about 50 pages each, which do end up forming a longer story when put together, but it's still not the same thing.
Also, from a visionary like Brunner, I'd have expected a bit more... vision. So the Spanish Armada defeated the English in 1588 and now Spain rules Western Europe, except the north, and the Americas. But, besides the invention of time travel, the Spanish society of 1988 looks very much unchanged from that of 1588. Misses the technological developments that really happened until then but, with the exception of time travel, adds nothing new to replace them.